2025 Off-Season Thread

[Chosen54721]

On 6/23/2025 at 1:43 PM, Soul Bro said:

It's crazy that Tatum, Dame, and now Hali have all torn their achilles during these playoffs. Add to that the injury concerns of Embiid and George, and the East is wide open. It's wild. I'm super grateful for our youth and our core, and I can't wait to see what's next.

I was listening to Give and Go, XM radio ch 86, and when asked about all of the injuries to the top players in the east this season, Antonio Daniels stated that all of the players were wearing low cut basketball shoes with no ankle support as a contributor to this problem. I wonder how much weight/credibility  anyone else have given this?

[Shine88]

BREAKING: Boston, Atlanta and Brooklyn are finalizing a three-team trade that sends Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round pick to the Hawks, Terance Mann and Atlanta's No. 22 pick to the Nets, and Georges Niang and a second-rounder to the Celtics

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1937644320070467798

The Hawks are going to be nice next season.

Young

Daniels

Risacher

Johnson

Porzingis

 

[Chosen54721]

5 minutes ago, Shine88 said:

BREAKING: Boston, Atlanta and Brooklyn are finalizing a three-team trade that sends Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round pick to the Hawks, Terance Mann and Atlanta's No. 22 pick to the Nets, and Georges Niang and a second-rounder to the Celtics

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1937644320070467798

The Hawks are going to be nice next season.

Young

Daniels

Risacher

Johnson

Porzingis

 

I am not sure if Porzingis can stay on the court, the C's had a decent 3 man rotation that was able to cover the mystery illness that keeps him of the court for a large part of the schedule. I doubt the Hawks will be able to hide him next season, like the Celtics have been doing. 

[Soul Bro]

16 minutes ago, Shine88 said:

BREAKING: Boston, Atlanta and Brooklyn are finalizing a three-team trade that sends Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round pick to the Hawks, Terance Mann and Atlanta's No. 22 pick to the Nets, and Georges Niang and a second-rounder to the Celtics

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1937644320070467798

The Hawks are going to be nice next season.

Young

Daniels

Risacher

Johnson

Porzingis

That's a very weird trade for Boston. Sure they traded KP but got basically nothing in return. Maybe that was the goal... to really dump salary.

[Chosen54721]

3 minutes ago, Soul Bro said:

That's a very weird trade for Boston. Sure they traded KP but got basically nothing in return. Maybe that was the goal... to really dump salary.

From what I was hearing, the new ownership was not comfortable with the KP mystery illness, and will shed cost on their way back to the first apron. 

[Soul Bro]

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Yossi Gozlan

 

@YossiGozlan

 

The Boston Celtics have reduced their luxury tax penalty by nearly $210 million by trading Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday for Anfernee Simons and Georges Niang. $238 million in total savings so far and are now $4.5 million below the second apron.

https://x.com/YossiGozlan/status/1937646880508510406

That's a lot of money saved.

[All Eyes On Me]

So happy for Franz, he gets his brother on his team and now his son gets traded into his division.

[Shine88]

 

[CTMagicUK]

5 hours ago, All Eyes On Me said:

So happy for Franz, he gets his brother on his team and now his son gets traded into his division.

LOL was wondering where this comment was headed.

[CTMagicUK]

"Word is that the Hawks, at roughly $30 million below the luxury-tax line, are expected to register interest in a sign-and-trade deal with Minnesota to try to acquire Nickeil Alexander-Walker" - per Mark Stein. 

A sign and trade will be more than the MLE so you can cross NAW out for us if this is true.

EDIT: if Atlanta is healthy a rotation of Trae/Daniels/Johnson/Risarcher/Okongwu/NAW/Porzingis is on its way to being a pretty strong team. 

 

[CTMagicUK]

Alex Martins is stepping down. This is... weird. Does this mean something? Or nothing? 

EDIT: ok I've read the Sentinel piece and mostly I'm just concerned that the next generation of Devos' are getting involved and it might lead to a situation where we end up having some nepo baby making basketball decisions (see: the Denver Nuggets) Weltman is, unless I missed something, out of contract after this year and whilst I don't think he's done a flawless job I'd prefer the good he has done not be torn down by someone new who wants to make their own mark or be ruined by some terrible ownership decisions (see: the Phoenix Suns) 

[tkranole]

No idea if he’ll retire or not but Al Horford could be a sneaky good option in the front court.